Ah, but one thing I miss about the burned-in subtitles was how, on VHS at least,...

throw_away on Jan 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI could end foreign-language subtitles

Ah, but one thing I miss about the burned-in subtitles was how, on VHS at least, one could fast forward like 2-3x and still be able to read the captions. I double-lazied my way out of more than one high school book review where a boring book was made into a boring movie.

crtasm on Jan 20, 2022 [–]

But now we can do the same thing with softsubs, e.g. using VLC.